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Daressy #: 100
Owner: Amunhotep (tomb undiscovered, perhaps at Dra Abul Naga)
Reasons: --
Transliteration: jmAxy xr Asjr jmj-st-a n jmn Hrj-sA 4 nw jmn-Htp mAa-xrw
Translation: Revered one before Osiris, acolyte of Amun, chief of the fourth phyle, Amunhotep justified.
Date: A. II (see 'Remarks' section below).
Length: 6.6 x 3.6 x 3.7 digits (MFA Boston: # RES.72.329), 8.9 x 5.4 x 2.9 digits (HAN: 1935,200,365).
Colours: Red paint on the face and the stem under white (01-128 in Davies's notebook).
Findspots:
16 from Dra Abul Naga (Gauthier 1908 [BIFAO 6]: 126–127).
One from 'Areal A' in Dra Abul Naga (Kruck 2012: 125).
Unknown examples from TT 184 (Fábián 2013a: 31; Fábián 2013c: 12).
One from TT 184 area (Fábián 2016: 38, 44).
Remarks:
There is a possible statue of this Amunhotep but the titles on it are jmj-st-a n jmn and Hrj-sA tpj jmn. If this is the case, Amunhotep had a father named [...]abu ([...]Abw) and a mother, Tuiu (twjw) (Dunham 1940 [JEA 26]).
Two bricks are housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA Boston: # RES.72.330, # RES.72.329). A museum in Liverpool also has a brick with two seal impressions (Borchardt, etc. 1934 [ZAS 70]: 33 n. 2).
The ascribed owner may have been identical to the owner of # 198. Eichler pointed out the possibility that this Amunhotep was identical with the owner of a stela in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Inv. # 17.2.6. Hayes 1990: 172-173, Fig. 94, Eichler 2000: 259), on which Kamis, who had # 207 (and who was probably a different individual from TT 398 Kamose called Nentawaeref, whose cones were # 13, # 118 and # 119), is inscribed.
Schlögl has proposed that the statue of Amenhotep should stylistically be dated to before the reign of Amunhotep III. Based on the fact that Amunhotep served as a mortuary priest for King Thutmose III, he suggests that this provides a terminus post quem for dating the statue. Accordingly, the statue was likely produced during the reign of King Amunhotep II, or at the latest under Thutmose IV (Schlögl 1978: 57-58). In addition, the stela of Amunhotep housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. no. 17.2.6) is also attributed to the reign of Amunhotep II. Moreover, his father, Nakht of TT 397, was a figure active during the reign of Hatshepsut. Taken together, these three pieces of evidence strongly suggest that our Amunhotep was active during the reign of Amunhotep II.
For a possible reconstruction of Amunhotep’s family tree, see Habachi 1968: 56.
See also 04-013 in Macadam's Green file, 05-024 in his DALEX file 1, and 06-029, 097, & 098 in his DALEX file 2.
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